Joe-Laidler Karen, Hunt Geoffrey P
Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China.
Drugs (Abingdon Engl). 2012;19(6):442-452. doi: 10.3109/09687637.2012.702144.
The aim of this article is to reflect on the conceptual and methodological developments of our gang research over the past 20 years. We have conducted a large number of consecutive qualitative studies on youth gangs, drugs and alcohol in one urban locale for over two decades and have amassed a data set of over 2000 qualitative interviews. We have kept pace with the social changes in San Francisco as they have impacted and shaped youth gangs and their members' lives. However, these changes have not only occurred in the social context of gang members' lives, but have also occurred in our own thinking about how to conceptualize research on gangs. We have broadened our analysis of gang members' lives and incorporated new theoretical developments from research outside of the gang field. In addition to this shift in emphasis, our overall aim has been to redirect the research focus on youth gangs from a social problem and criminological perspective to a more sociological approach in which these youth are situated within an everyday perspective. With these overall issues in mind, we see this discussion as taking stock of the nature of gang research in the past, present and future.
本文旨在回顾我们在过去20年里帮派研究在概念和方法上的发展。二十多年来，我们在一个城市地区针对青少年帮派、毒品和酒精进行了大量连续的定性研究，积累了超过2000份定性访谈的数据集。我们紧跟旧金山的社会变革，这些变革影响并塑造了青少年帮派及其成员的生活。然而，这些变化不仅发生在帮派成员生活的社会背景中，也发生在我们自己对于如何将帮派研究概念化的思考中。我们拓宽了对帮派成员生活的分析，并纳入了帮派领域之外研究的新理论发展。除了这种重点的转变，我们的总体目标是将青少年帮派研究的重点从社会问题和犯罪学视角转向一种更具社会学的方法，即将这些青少年置于日常视角中。考虑到这些总体问题，我们认为这次讨论是对帮派研究在过去、现在和未来的性质进行评估。
